Enough evidence to sack Shellharbour Council: inquiry

A special New South Wales Government inquiry has been told there is sufficient evidence for Shellharbour City Council to be sacked.

The counsel assisting the commission, Daniel Meltz, has outlined several reasons for the NSW south coast council to be sacked, including continual failures with the council's code of conduct committee.

Council is required to have a code of conduct committee to address complaints against councillors.

The public inquiry heard the committee had been disbanded for some months last year, leading to a backlog of complaints.

The Department of Local Government requires a three-person committee with one external member.

But when the Shellharbour committee was reinstated it had five members, three of whom were external and had to be paid.

Mr Meltz said this came at a considerable extra cost.

The inquiry heard that the new committee had yet to present any findings to the council, although it was scheduled to report to a council meeting two days ago.